Police stand outside the Polish public television TVP building as protesters and Law and Justice politicians gather after Poland’s new government took a public news channel off the air and dismissed executives from state media to restore “impartiality,” the culture ministry said, in Warsaw, Poland, December 20, 2023. Photos: OSV News/Kacper Pempel, Reuters Polarisation in Poland has reached new heights as it enters the new year, following the election of a left-leaning government more in line with those “European values” we frequently hear about from the continent’s top bureaucrats than the nation’s previous right-wing PiS (Law and Justice) administration. At the top of the new government’s agenda, headed…
